Comments on: How to deal with the foods you miss from home as an expat

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:00:44 +0000

Great article!

This kind of falls under searching for a substitute, but if the local cuisine doesn’t offer a particular ingredient, explore foreign groceries from other cultures. For example, in Austria I have trouble finding certain Mexican ingredients, and when I do find them they can be very expensive. But Turkish groceries are common here, and they have good, reasonably priced cumin, black beans, and hot peppers. As a bonus, I’ve discovered a few Turkish treats I would have never tried otherwise.

By: Tia

Tia — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:51:30 +0000

Luckily Globalization isn’t all bad – I have found crisp bread and other familiar products in foreign countries, and even though I don’t like Panda licorice, it reminds me of home. Here in New York I have been lucky to find out that Finnish rye bread is sold in the Union Square Greenmarket and some others, too. I am planning on freezing rye bread and taking it with me to Japan, so that it won’t go bad right away.
Sometimes the cravings can be substituted with something similar but different – in the case of rye bread, seeing the “rye” in the stores here just makes me angry. I am in terms of the fact that rye here is no rye at all, so I might just as well skip the disappointment and order another type of bread.

There is no place like home, but Coca Cola can be found almost anywhere.

By: Allison DuPree

Allison DuPree — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:39:17 +0000

Not usre when I will be an expert I the future. I’ll be keeping this note when I do fly and settle in a foreign land with my tummy begging for a food from my homeland.

By: Jeremy Hollander

Jeremy Hollander — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:13:36 +0000

Great article. I’ve lived in a couple of places away from ‘home’ and I’ve typically asked friends and family to bring items to me when they visit me. Shipping from abroad has become pretty expensive, especially when dealing with heavier items.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:58:54 +0000

We’ve done a few of these. Certain things like salsa and Mexican food we have tried to make ourselves. Other things like the cheap fruity jelly beans, we’ve gotten brought from the US.
I guess it falls into Make Yourself, but we have started growing things ourselves too. The German food is not so spicy, and we have had issues finding hot chilis. So we just planted our own.